Hello all!

I'm new here, please excuse me if I'm missing any local protocol rule.

I just tried to use the ant-integration (through Maven's plugin) with JBoss.
It's almost OK, but JBoss starts a little too slow and the first test
returns with 500-server error.

I looked into it and here's what I found:

Starting means telling the Container to start, then waiting for the
specified URL, then waiting some extra 1000ms (this is taken from
ContainerRunner, probably CVS HEAD).

The problem is that JBoss starts the embedded Tomcat and this Tomcat may
even begin to serve some contexts (e.g. jmx-console), but the startup is not
over "until the fat lady sings" :)
I guess that was the reason "startUpWait" was introduced in ContainerRunner,
but 1000ms seems to be way not enough.

However, currently there's no way to change this param (or at least I have
not found any obvious one in the source).

It would be even hard to do that, since ContainerRunner is not backed by a
tag.

I would suggest that startUpWait and shutDownWait should be moved into
AbstractContainer and added to the Container interface, too. Then,
ContainerRunner should use whatever "comes in" from the particular Container
it got on creation.
 This way one would be able to specify his particular "extra" timing on a
container-by-container basis.
It would be cool to go on a container basis, because different containers
might have different startup behaviors. I think one wouldn't want to set a
global value "good for all" and waste time on each testing cycle.

I may even be able to provide a patch for that if I get some positive
feedback and nobody does the changes before two weeks from now (I'll be
travelling).

Anyway, the increased timeout is only a short term solution. Maybe some sort
of JMX checking for completion of the deployment would be the best solution,
and I'm really-really contemplating doing that as well.

Please tell me what do you think about that.

Florin

P.S. Vincent, as you see, I got on Cactus list anyway :)



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